HeyJaredTravails of a Transatlantic Transplant
Home, away from home. By an American from California who left England for Canada.
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Bring in the chickens (opens the original)
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Trojan horses and tap water (opens the original)
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I’m guessing that the current president of the US was able to score an advance screening of Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film The Odyssey. I’m dubious about whether he watched the whole three hour epic (I did!) but perhaps he sat through the beginning and saw the horse dragged inside the gates of Troy. I wonder whether he realized how close he was to that fabled site when he escaped from Turkey using a similar ruse:“President Trump hid in an airport catering container and was taken to a milit
Not yet travel savvy (opens the original)
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You’d think that after all these years of traveling in England, California, and Canada, I’d be pretty good at it. Take my recent trip from Toronto to LA and back again. I’ve done the same thing forty or fifty times by now. I ought to be able to do it in my sleep. Right? Wrong, wrong, wrong.*****In June we had a long-planned visit to LA to attend a wedding reception for my dad’s side of the family tree, the one that grew in his hometown of Baltimore. We love these folks but don’t often see them.
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